Medical Science

EDIT: My apologies mods, just realized there was a "Medical science" section, could you please move this post at your convenience? The following post in incredibly long, I know, but please, bear with me. I started being sick the Sunday before last; it started out as a barely perceptible sore throat which, over the next 24 hours, developed into a more serious one, accompanied by swollen lymph nodes. I went to have throat, blood and urine samples taken the next day, as I was suspicious of mono (my girlfriend contracted mono about a month ago and to be frank we didn't give much attention to the fact that it's transmitted by saliva. I was willing to take the risk, pa…

I was wondering if anybody knew what the general consensus was on the separation of experience and personality, or if there even is one? For example, I have heard of people who have had total memory loss that they have not recovered from, and they end up being radically different people following that. This could be seen as evidence that the loss of memory is equivalent to the loss of personality, but it could also just be that whatever caused the initial memory loss was also responsible for other damage to the brain. This is not something you can ethically experiment with of course! Let's say, for example, it were possible for an exact copy of me to be made and then …

Still experimental, but it works. Many of you likely understand this process completely, but to me it is a fascinating marvel of science. A 3 minutes video you will want to see. http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/the_skin_gun

Hi everyone! I wanted to let you all know about a new iPhone application called HIV iConference CME that was designed to provide current, expert treatment information for clinicians and specialists involved in the management of HIV/AIDS. The HIV iConference CME application provides highlights of new studies and guidelines within approximately 48-72 hours from their release at major meetings. This free, interactive application will also provide physicians with a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. To learn more about the HIV iConference mobile application, visit www.hiviconference.com

Do a simple search in youtube or google video and type 'psychiatry'. Listen to the amount of negative feedback coming from REAL notable doctors. Knowing people who have been through the system and have nothing positive come out of it, it makes these doctors sound right. There are no cures, just treatment with dangerous mind altering medications. That doesn't sound like science does it? Its 2011 and this is the best we have?

Nice video on some of the biotechnology and bioengineering and how that will improve medicine and treatment and allow people to live longer . Biotech Revolution 1 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNA4axfLCc&feature=related Note Marat did you even watch part 2 of the video what they are going to do with that information? Biotech Revolution 2 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vihla-2CJ4I&feature=related

Can the quality of health care in the US be increased by lowering the qualification requirements to provide medical care? It might seem counter-intuitive at first, but not if you think through it carefully. Of course, a better doctor would provide better treatment. However, a doctor is limited in the number of patients he can treat, and furthermore even having to wait for treatment can exacerbate any harm. Furthermore, with a shortage of doctors it becomes necessary to ration out care or to increase the price to the point where people forgo treatment due to the price. Thus, conditions could worsen or go untreated altogether. At some point, even if the fewer doctors can pr…

so i have an odd question... what would happen if you injected mercury into your body? now im sure the results will vary quite a bit depending on where the injection was and how much was injected. so if this were fatal what would be the actual mode of death be?

Hallo guys i want to know some informations about passive filtration of drugs. i didnt find any infos until know. what do you know about that Thanx!

I thought Scheerer's phenomenon was is the appearance of tiny bright dots moving quickly along when looking into blue light or very bright out side? And visual snow is like snow like appearance does not matter if it is bright or not.There is no cure for Scheerer's phenomenon and visual snow yet . The dots are due to the white blood cells that move in the capillaries in front of the retina from what I understand. my last question I thought digestive tract was 5 to 8 hours ? For past 3 days I got a upset stomach 2 hours after eating the same food. I thought 2 or 3 hours the food would not even be in the small intestine yet that lone the bigger intestine ?

Well first things first I'm new so hi to everyone. I was reading about Stem Cells and something came to mind and I was wondering what the posibilites were with this. So when it comes to cloning we are able to do more and more. I was just simply wondering if it would ever be possible to be able to clone stem cells from Embryonic Cells. If that was possible wouldn't that end all the controversy and make things much easier in the fight to legalize them (I'm unbiased one way or the other).

I am 17 weeks pregnant and recently got abnormal results on an MSAFP. They were low and indicated the I had a 1 in 149 chance of having a baby with Down Syndrome. (I have a healthy three-year-old son and no other risk factors.) Although the ultrasound revealed nothing abnormal, we decided to have amniocenticis. Since I had the test I have not been able to function. I can't sleep, I have been vomiting frequently and when I do sleep I'm having constant nightmares. I have lost five pounds and I'm concerned about the health of my baby. I have tried relaxation techniques, focusing on positives, and keeping as busy as possible. Nothing is helping. I am almost paralyzed with fea…

I have a rare auto immune diseas (Microscopic Polyangitis), caused small intestine to have two lots of surgery, arthritis, premature osteoporosis, heart murmur, kidney failure and consequent kidney transplant......I would like to leave my shell to medical science - what do I have to do to achieve this? Just tell my Doctor, or is there something else I have to do? I am certin it will be very useful - medical teams get very excited qand interested when they have to take care of me!! Any ideas

For the past 14 months, I have had a succession of chiropractic interns trying to fix the mess that the first one made. We are finally starting to wrap that up. I would have gone to a professional to get it fixed, but I was really leery of all the leeches that don't want to fix things right, don't know how to, and those that want to charge a gazillion dollars to be that touch above and still don't know everything that the students know, besides the fact that the pain kind of interferes with my cognitive processes sometimes since all of the nerves are way up near my neck. For the previous ten years, I was caught up in their vicious circles of pain that they actuall…

Despite the fact that diagnostic technology has greatly improved over the last 60 years and the percentage of the population smoking cigarettes -- a major cause of lung cancer -- has vastly declined during that same period, in the United States in 1950 18,000 people died of lung cancer, while in 2004 in the U.S. 160,000 people died of lung cancer. Since the U.S. population approximately doubled during that period, that means that the cancer death rate has more than quadrupled over that period. Five year survival rate for those diagnosed with lung cancer has remained stable for the last 20 years, and even for other cancers, the five year survival rate has just edged up b…

Could lactic acid be responsible for increase telomerase activity in some forms of cancer? If so could you point me towards some scholarly articles.

Hi there! I want to share a new live and free continuing medical education event in Chicago I came across yesterday when I was searching for new CME activities. The event is called Acute Coronary Syndrome: Bridging the Gaps in Care and it’s for all clinical cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, hospitalists and emergency department physicians. It looks to be an exciting and event! Registration is open at http://www.provaeducation.com/acs

A new research has found that taking low-dose aspirin could reduce risk of cancer. This study has been published in the Lancet. Eight previous studies were reviewed for this study. All told, about 25,500 patients' information was included. This research is incredibly promising. There isn't really yet enough details for doctors to make a decision on aspirin therapy. Source for this article - Study links aspirin and cancer survival - don't start pills yet by Money Blog Newz. Aspirin might be able to stop cancer Today, the meta-study was published. A team or researchers in Britain published them. They said that taking aspirin every single day for five years redu…

I have some microscope slides with brain tissue slides on them. They have a glass cover slip over all of the slices. I'll do oil drop on them in order to observe, but when I'm cleaning up I have to use alcohol. It's been a while since I've walked into the laboratory, and it's difficult for me to get a hold of my supervisors. As such, anyone know which alcohol I should be using? Isopropanol? 70% ethanol? I cannot seriously recall nor reason as to why not to use one rather than the other.

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I'm wondering about this. Mosquito biting is always harmful? Malaria, dengue, yellow fever, west nile virus are not very harmful disease for human. They are come from mosquito biting. But think about this. There is a mosquito which is not infected such disease, mosquito biting is all bad. How do we get immune capacity? We get immune capacity from vaccine injection or illness ... So, the mosquito biting which is not infected by harmful disease is not so bad for our health. How can we get the immune capacity for fighting cancer?

Imagine what would have happened to our world if there were no doctors to treat us from our diseases? The mortality rate would have increased and as such it would have tremendously affected the health of the nation. Scientific discoveries in the sphere of medicine have indeed come as a boon to human beings. One such discovery which has made quite a stir in the medicinal world is the discovery of umbilical cord blood stem cells and cord blood stem cells. The discovery of umbilical cord blood stem cells and cord blood stem cells have led to the prevention to a number of diseases which were other wise considered as incurable. Cord blood stem cell is the process of uti…

I have a Chinese friend who has lots of pustules and sometimes likes to pop them. I'm wondering whether doing this is healthy. Is it harmful in any way? Generally, is popping pustules a better alternative to not popping? What are the latest scientific evidence suggesting?

I tend to get what I would call cold symptoms, regularly if I go out on a cold day. Even after 20 minutes outside in the cold, I will regularly end up with cold-like symptoms. However, my wife insists on calling these symptoms (blocked nose, occasional sneezing) 'chills' rather than colds. So what is the matter? Do I manifest the symptoms of cold viruses inside me that have been 'waiting' inside me, or are these 'chills' related, instead, to inflammation of the mucus membranes of the nose which copy the effect of having an actual cold without all the symptoms

Humans can tolerate wide ranges of temperature variation. With increasing hot or cold, however, discomfort is reached and ultimately health problems may result. I'm wondering about the limits of sustainable indoor temperature. I have read about acclimatization studies where native Alaskans were observed to walk barefoot in very cold temperatures and were measured as shivering at lower temperatures than other students who did not engage in acclimatization practices. Does anyone know what the minimum consistent indoor temperature humans can tolerate without encountering health problems? Obviously clothing and other factors make a difference, but I would guess around 50…